I agree 100% with Craig. Now's the time to drop frames. It takes some getting used to, and I still don't see how the scrollable aspect of frames is done with <span>s and <div>s, but everything says the days of frames are numbered. Unless you are committed to Netscape 4 compatibility, I would say: drop frames.
<span> can be placed anywhere and resizes the page according to its innerHTML content. <div> is a stronger statement, requiring explicit placement and allows for overlays of material.
Both are a bit tricky. But if you can build a table, you can basically design the table cells to act like frames by adding <span></span> just inside the <td></td> tags as:
<td><span name=jmolcell> blahblahblah<applet....></applet>dodeedodeedo</span></td>
I'm considering completely abandoning frames. Haven't quite gotten there yet.
Bob
C Martin wrote:
Adriano,
Bob is correct that you need to prepend each call with a "parent." reference, or with a more direct reference to the frame in which the Applet was created (frames can be id'd by name or number).
If you are trying to use Jmol.js, you'll run into problems because it is not written to call across frames. In other words, even though you might get the Jmol.js function called correctly by pre-pending "parent.", when the Jmol.js function calls the Applet, it will still be calling from the wrong frame.
I ran into this problem converting a CHIME project that I had. Since everything that I read says we should not use frames anymore, I used this as a prompt to drop the frames altogether. In order to achieve the same type of positioning I could achieve with frames, I had to learn to use positioning with <DIV> and/or <SPAN> tags. Google to your favorite JavaScript site to learn more.
You can see my "frame-less" implementation at: http://tm.chem.umass.edu/martin/Courses/BioStruct/JmolShell/WingedHelixII
Craig Martin
Message: 2 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: adriano ceccarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:16:33 +0200 Subject: [Jmol-users] crossing frames
Hi all, I can't manage to use links in one frame to execute scripts by the applet in the other frame, same window. Is it possible at all, and, in case, how?
Many thanks
Adriano
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Message: 5 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:32:58 -0500 From: Bob Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] crossing frames
this is no problem. I do this all the time. See, for example,
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/jmol/inline/
It would help if you provide a reference to a page you find doesn't work. You need a "name" parameter in the frame tag:
<frame name=FrameMolecule ....>
then in JavaScript you can say:
parent.FrameMolecule.document.open() parent.FrameMolecule.document.write()
etc.
If that is what you are doing already, send the URL to the page.
Bob Hanson
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